To get the Gas prices down, should our Government ration the Gas supply ?

The govt should not ration gas. If gas prices are too high we should be able to get the price down by getting the bicycle out of the garage. In my city (Las Vegas) we can get around with mopeds. Mopeds with a certain size engine do not require plates or insurance. They are excellent for getting around the neighborhood and can be used to commute back and forth from work where the distances are not that great.

I have to admit, I am kind of amazed that no one has mentioned that oil companies are at their most profitable peak in this nation's history. The oil companies need to be regulated on their profit margins. Force them to be reasonable, you think I could care less if the CEO makes $200,000 instead of $20 million? People are losing sight of the fact that it is not dwindling supply that is driving prices up, it is dwindling consciences among the elite executives in ou society. You want to drive prices down? Hit them where it hurts, their pocket. Walk to work, the store, the park, the beach, whatever is within reason. Turn your A/C off, leave the windows open, use the cheap gas (our cars don't even need it), Rationing the supply would only create a fuel black market and make things worse.

Can you imagine a business man desperate to get to his meeting trying to buy his "fix" on the street corner and it comes neatly packaged in a five gallon red container? Not exactly where our country should be heading..........

The basic problem here is that we Americans, for some reason, aren't bright enough to "get it." Gasoline prices will rise for as long as the market will bear it. If we continue to delight in ridiculously wasteful, oversized vehicles, we will have to pay the going rate to fuel them--not to mention that our childish sense of oil entitlement (encouraged by greedy politicians who have done nothing to promote conservation of this strictly limited fossil fuel because they all profit from "big oil") will probably continue right up to the time that the oil is nearing depletion, and then we'll all rally behind whatever leader suggests we should torch the rest of the world so we can have the oil for ourselves.

There have been, and continue to be people of insight who are working to develop very rich alternative energy sources. Unfortunately, they can't afford to buy politicians to sway the public toward greater energy responsibility, and their efforts are funded only by people of means who appreciate and respect their work.

We will pay and pay and pay for gasoline, largely because we are too short-sighted to respect its limitations. We deserve what we get! Rationing and other "extreme" measures do little more than mess up the free market.

No, at this point the government should put money into research on a way to stop our gas and oil dependency. There has to be a way to convert regular cars into some sort of hybrid cars. Soon there will be no more oil left to fuel all the cars in the world. It is high time that a new way for transportation to become feasible.

Nope they shouldn't ration gas!! That will drive some people underground & put the brakes on our economy. If we want to get gas prices down, we need to drive Congress crazy with faxes, emails, & phone calls to temporarily reduce the fuel tax that we pay everytime we fuel our vehicles.

Then, to stick it to the oil companies, we need to reduce our oil consumption. Shop locally for as many needs as possible. Brown bag your lunch, so you aren't in line at the local fast food outlet. Idle only when necessary. Prepare & freeze meal(s) in advance, so everyone can have a hot meal without you going out to eat. Limit your children's activities or carpool, so you aren't running around in circles taking care of their activities.

In addition, most of the world is relying on oil for fuel, fertilizer, plastics, etc. Consumption is going to go up unless we get control of our own usage. Get out of the NIMBY (not in my backyard) mindset. Encourage new refieneries to be built. They will bring in jobs & oil companies are trying to go green to keep a good image. As long as oil companies can keep using older refineries, environmentalists & NIMBY's can keep newer refieneries from being constructed, oil companies will continue to reap huge profits & we will be paying for it.

Currently prices are a result of supply and demand. Supplies are low, demand is high. This results in higher prices. You are proposing a false limitation on supply. Exactly what do you think that will do to prices? Socialism does not work. If anything, reduce demand rather than supply.

Oil is $ninety 5 a barrel! that's totally just about $2 a gallon purely for the crude oil, only like it comes out of a hollow interior the floor. i could no longer have self belief it did no longer bypass up speedier. the fee is oil is all in accordance with grant and insist. the availability is manipulated to deal with the fee.

I know how you feel because its raised 80cents in 5 months where I live, but i think limiting the supply will actually create higher prices.

the government should regulate fuel effieciency car manufacture could inprove gas consumption but consumers should demand it. not much incentive right now while we still keep buying what ever they put out.

Nope, they should open the fields in Alaska.